¹⁸ Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

¹² From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

¹⁴ Behold, you have driven me out this day from the surface of the ground. I will be hidden from your face, and I will be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth. It will happen that whoever finds me will kill me."

⁶ Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

¹² As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, And set me in your presence forever.

² but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

³⁹ and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

³⁹ For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."